Category Archives: Agriculture

Agriculture / Animal Diseases / Climate Change / Disease Control / East Africa / Environment / Kenya

SEI Africa takes part in three million Euro EU project in eastern Africa

Posted on by • Leave a comment

“The project will focus on building a disease risk mapping system for three water-related high-impact vector-borne diseases (malaria, Rift Valley fever and schistosomiasis) in Africa, accounting for environmental/climatic trends to predict future risk.” The newly established SEI Africa Centre has been successful in taking part in a bid led by Trinity College Dublin for a … Continue reading →

Agriculture / Biotechnology / Consumption / Food Security / Research

As ‘slow food’ becomes the preoccupation of the rich, food of any kind remains the preoccupation of the poor

Posted on by • Leave a comment

In the May/June 2010 issue of Foreign Policy, agricultural policy analyst Robert Paarlberg argues that the trendy food causes of rich countries, whose sustainable mantra is ‘organic, local and slow’, ‘is no recipe for saving the world’s hungry millions’. ‘Too much food production is already organic, local and slow in the developing world,’ he says. … Continue reading →

Africa / Agriculture / Ethiopia / ILRI / Innovation Systems / IPMS / Markets / Women

Opportunities for promoting gender equality in rural Ethiopia through the commercialization of agriculture

Posted on by • Leave a comment

This working paper by Lemlem Aregu, Clare Bishop-Sambrook, Ranjitha Puskur and Ephrem Tesema on Opportunities for promoting gender equality in rural Ethiopia through the commercialization of agriculture was released on 31 May, 2010 This paper discusses gender issues in the context of the Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers’ Project being implemented … Continue reading →

Africa / Agriculture / Ethiopia / ILRI / IPMS / Research

Results-based monitoring and evaluation for organizations working in agricultural development: a guide for practitioners

Posted on by • Leave a comment

This manual by Berhanu Gebremedhin, Abraham Getachew and Rebeka Amha on Results-based monitoring and evaluation for organizations working in agricultural development: a guide for practitioners was released on 12 May, 2010 The purpose of this guide for practitioners is to contribute to the development of RBM&E capacity and to facilitate its institutionalization in organizations dealing … Continue reading →

Africa / Agriculture / Asia / Crop-Livestock / Livestock / Research / Uganda

The future of agricultural research for development

Posted on by • Leave a comment

There is no doubt that in the last 50 years, agricultural science has helped to overcome the threat of famine for billions of people. But a billion remain undernourished and the spectre of poverty remains. With climate change, rising food prices and a burgeoning global population, the demands on agriculture to become more efficient and … Continue reading →

Africa / Agriculture / Climate Change / East Africa / Food Security / ILRI

Climate models paint bleak picture for East Africa

Posted on by • Leave a comment

Climate change is expected to bring greater extremes in weather conditions, but climate models disagree about which problems – droughts, flooding, temperature increases – are most likely in much of northern, central and western Africa. In east Africa, however, the models largely agree: dry areas will suffer more prolonged droughts and wet areas will see … Continue reading →

Agriculture / CCAFS / Climate Change / Environment / Food Security

Experts gather in Nairobi to plan campaign on climate threat to global hunger and poverty

Posted on by • Leave a comment

Leading agriculture and climate scientists, policymakers, farmers, and development experts from around the world will gather in Nairobi on May 4 to focus on the threat of climate change to the global food supply. If not dealt with, climate change could imperil efforts to reduce poverty and hunger and threaten the stability of entire nations … Continue reading →

Agriculture / Food Security / Livestock Systems / Women

Women in agriculture: Land O’Lakes looks at the opportunities

Posted on by • 1 Comment

There is a joke circulating among development agencies in Uganda that updates the ‘give a man a fish’ slogan: “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll feed himself forever. Teach a woman to fish, and she’ll feed herself, her family, her neighbors and her … Continue reading →

Agriculture / China / East Africa / ILRI / Kenya / Research

Chinese agricultural academy signs memorandum with Kenyan partners

Posted on by • Leave a comment

To expand cooperation and exchanges with African countries on tropical agricultural technology, experts of livestock, vegetable and cassava from Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) recently visited the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and signed a cooperation memorandum of understanding with the ILRI, marking a new start … Continue reading →